Kara Thorndike
Kara Thorndike is interested in how we choose to be and why. She seeks wisdom in understanding the context of experiences that shape how we are. Her work strives to give voice to experiences, realized and otherwise, the multiple potentialities of how things can be. Living in participant observation, Kara’s practice is reflective of lived experience. And lived experience is her practice. She rejects that life, work, family, and environment are separate and/or static. Kara has studied social systems, distinctions between private and public, and inclusion and exclusion while earning a MA in Sociology, and later a practice-centered MFA in Art and Humanities. Her experiences working in education, social service, social science, design, and art have been a journey to piece together the fragments of living in spite of, and within the cracks.
Currently, Kara is based in Dundee, Scotland. She travels about the UK, and escapes to Ireland and Budapest (for Tölcsibe and warmth!) as often as possible with her young son in tow. Photographing life experiences is sometimes a shared hobby and collaborative work, sometimes not so much.
